Professor Toby Brandon

Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

Toby Brandon has a long-standing interest in empowerment, inclusion and engagement, regionally developing a network of contacts within Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and third sector organisations, including ReCoCo, Chilli Studios and The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company.

He publishes on mental health, advocacy, hate crime and participatory and co-productive research methodologies. His research outputs being part of the Research Excellence Framework for Social Policy and Social Work (UoA 20).

Toby lectures in the developing academic field of Mad Studies.

Campus Address

Room H019, Coach Lane Campus East
Benton
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7XA

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Key Publications

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Accredited Research Education with People with Lived Experience of Mental Health Distress, Gibbs, C., Brandon, T., Cooper, C., Hill, M. 5 Feb 2024, Developing and Implementing Teaching in Sensitive Subject and Topic Areas, Leeds, United Kingdom, Emerald Publishing
Developing and Implementing Teaching in Sensitive Subject and Topic Areas: A Comprehensive Guide for professionals in FE and HE Settings , McGovern, W., Gillespie, A., Brandon, T., McInnes, A. 5 Feb 2024
Making a difference for the future: the views of Educators by experience about their involvement in social work education, Lonbay, S., Brandon, T., O'Driscoll, S. 16 Nov 2024, In: Social Work Education
The introduction and development of a mental health integrated support unit within an English Prison: clinical, care staff and Operational Officer perspectives, McClelland, N., Brandon, T., Dyer, W., Cassidy, K., Ridley, L., Biddle, P. 1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Forensic Practice
Use of a targeted, computer/web-based guided self-help psychoeducation toolkit for distressing hallucinations (MUSE) in people with an at-risk mental state for psychosis: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial, Hamilton, J., Arnott, B., Aynsworth, C., Barclay, N., Birkett, L., Brandon, T., Dixon, L., Dudley, R., Einbeck, J., Gibbs, C., Kharatikoopaei, E., Simpson, J., Dodgson, G., Fernyhough, C. 30 Jun 2023, In: BMJ Open
Prisoners with Severe Mental Illnesses and Everyday Prison Interior (Re)design, Cassidy, K., Dyer, W., Biddle, P., Ridley, L., Brandon, T., McClelland, N. 4 Dec 2022, The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Implications for mental health workforce strategy, professional training and supervision of more widespread adoption of the multi-professional Responsible Clinician role: Results of a qualitative inquiry, Oates, J., Burrell, C., Ebrahim, S., Taylor, J., Veitch, P., Brandon, T. 1 May 2021, In: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Social Workers’ Negotiation of the Liminal Space Between Personalisation Policy and Practice, Southall, C., Lonbay, S., Brandon, T. 4 Mar 2021, In: European Journal of Social Work
The Development of a Prison Mental Health Unit in England: Understanding Realist Context(s)., Dyer, W., Cassidy, K., Ridley, L., Biddle, P., McClelland, N., Brandon, T. 1 Apr 2021, In: International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
Extending Voice and Autonomy Through Participatory Action Research: Ethical and Practical Issues: Reflections on a Workshop held at Durham University, November 2018, Kong, S., Banks, S., Brandon, T., Chappell, S., Charnley, H., Hwang, S., Rudd, D., Shaw, S., Slatcher, S., Ward, N. 2020, In: Ethics & Social Welfare

Professional Activity

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Other: RWIRE Website 2013

Qualifications

Teaching & Learning PCAPL September 15 2005
PhD June 30 1999
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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